Alda = a talented but asinine puke. He was so good in those early seasons, Adam’s Ribs, and the one where he made all these deals to get a new pair of boots, etc. Classic stuff. I was a first-termer in the USAF and we all would congregate on Monday nights in the TV room to watch the show. It was so good then at satirizing the minutia of military life.
I agree, the show slipped after Trapper and Blake left, then Frank Burns leaving was the final straw.
You guys didn’t watch Monday night football?